cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/63528654
The digital directorate in France will switch from Windows to Linux and the state is embarking on a major project to reduce the “outer European digital dependency”
The subject of digital sovereignty has been imposed in the public debate since the beginning of 2026 in the face of a hypothesis: and if the United States cut off access to some of its technologies in Europe.
In France, the Prime Minister commissioned the Inter-Ministerial Directorate of Digital Affairs (DINUM) to “reduce the state’s extra-European digital dependencies”. It is this body that supervises the computer equipment and the deployment of services to the various government administrations.
The first target is now known: it is Windows.
I recently had to use again MS word after years of using libreoffice because a chieff is a complete idiot and it really isn’t what i remembered… it’s bad, so plagued with terrible decisions that i dont understand how people is still using that piece of crap. Maybe it is just the version (2019)
Just what we’re all used to and we’re trained on tbh.